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Sybil
[sib-uhl]
noun
a female given name.
Example Sentences
“She sees things from a different lens,” said Mary Pasquinelli, a nurse practitioner at the University of Illinois Chicago who sought to validate Sybil, a similar model codeveloped by Barzilay that looks to improve lung-cancer screening protocols.
Sybil, though, looks to predict lung-cancer risk several years out, something traditional screening doesn’t do.
Perhaps patients who are deemed to be at high risk by their smoking habits but at low risk by their Sybil scores might need less frequent screening.
In “The Correspondent,” stubborn, committed letter writer Sybil Van Antwerp pens her thoughts to her best friend, famous authors and her brother, revealing how life can change in small, meaningful ways.
“It’s a doorway into Sybil’s personal relationships,” said Shannon DeVito, senior director of books at Barnes & Noble.
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